Filing complaint against my former therapist.

The last few months have been the most troubling of my life, and a good deal of it is the result of, after talking with a few other therapists, highly unethical behavior on the part of my former therapist I consulted an attorney and after talking about some of the things that went on, our one hour meeting turned into almost 2 1/2.

Wondering if anyone here has ever filed a formal complaint against a therapist. I left my former therapist of 5 years in January because of a conflict of interest and am now pursuing a complaint, just wondering what I am in for.

I have an ongoing one against a former psychiatrist and am preparing one against a former therapist.

Depends on where you live. Some states (I'm assuming you're in the US) you just submit the complaint and a few months later they let you know what they decided. Others might have hearings or allow you to be more part of the process (so you'll get to see your therapist's response etc.). The licensing board should be on the state government website and include a description of the procedures.

Good luck.

Search the board of psychology in your state and find their website. Most have complaint forms you can submit on their website

Ya in the states, it my state doesn't have a really good overview of what happens. I submit (with my attorney) and they come and talk to me at some point, then I think they talk to my therapist, and if the investigators think their is merit, they submit to the board for review/judgement.

The nice thing is my attorney is one of the members of the judgement committee for lawyers who have been brought up on charges, so she knows her way around the system.

Just wondering, well anything ANYONE can tell me, did they look at your file, did they interview you?

I think you can expect them to look at your file, it will be the basis of your therapist's defense.

I spoke briefly with the investigator for my complaint, but as I had submitted a very thorough written complaint with exhibits and witnesses as the first step, it was just to confirm a few things. If it reaches the level of a hearing, I might have to testify.

I'm wondering how serious they will take me, I actually have some decent evidence, like the fact that her daughter posts on twitter who her client works for, and the fact that the client give my former therapist very expensive purses for free.

I have an email where she calls us friends, and I have caught her in a number of lies and have proof she lied to me several times, and plenty of proof that she told me to start using her personal email address and not her professional one. And I know WAY too much about her personal life, like way way too much.

If her daughter reveals clients' personal details publicly, that's certainly violation of the right to confidentiality.

The rest, I don't know. It's stuff she could probably turn around and blame on you so it becomes a she said, you said situation.

I hope your lawyer is helpful.

I'm in the process. In talking to someone at the state yesterday, once I send in my report, a decision of some sort will be made in about 6 weeks. That decision will be based on the amount of evidence I submit. The decisions include reprimand for the t, dismissal of the case, or moving to a hearing in which the t could lose their license. Hearings are being scheduled out over a year. If my case warrants a hearing I will probably have to be interviewed. I'm told by my new t that the interviews are very "client-friendly."

I have the option to submit my report anonymously if I want (I won't). I also have the option to not sign the release form for my records.

I think the worst part about the process, for me, is gathering up and organizing an overwhelming amount of evidence against my t to submit.

I had a few meetings with the medical licensing board and discussed facts of the case. I don't know whether they viewed my file or not. They visited the Perpdoc a few times. Perpdoc told them it was all a misunderstanding.

There was a more formal meeting where PerpDoc was encouraged to attend and speak for himself. They mailed PerpDoc the time and date of the meeting and a bulk of the charges against him. But PerpDoc didn't give them a correct address. The materials were returned a few times. PerpDoc did not appear at the hearing. The board voted to revoke his license due to misconduct, dishonesty, incompetence, negligence, repeated acts of negligence and sex with three female patients.

Some hearings go as expected- this same PerpDoc lied about me in civil and criminal depositions. I understand this is common. They also blame the victim. Delaying is another tactic PerpDoc used, just to let you know.

I'm glad you have a lawyer. Good luck.

I filed a complaint against my ex-T with the board of psychology. I thought I had enough evidence to prove she abandoned me. I guess I didn't? They determined she was ethical.

The process for me was that I submitted my evidence online, and the had to wait for them to contact ex-T and get her side. It took them 9 months to get back to me.

Well a lot of things I don't have proof for.

I just know entirely too much about her private life, marriages, affairs, all the things her kid does, Things about her husband and his band, her remodeling projects, how many times her insurance has been cancelled on her house. Diets she's been on...the list goes on and on.

The things I do have proof for:
Kid posting about her clients, or the HIPPA violations, or why she told me I am the only client with her personal email address, and it does even start to cover that she told me that she has nothing to do/doesn't talk to my sexual assailant, yet I have pictures of them together, she friended him on Facebook, and I have proof she attended his classes knowing that he was my sexual assailant, while claiming it wasn't a conflict of interest. Also, emails talking about how we are friends.